The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-10-05
PERSONAL.

EMPRESS EUGENE will pass the winter in
| Naples &
PRINCESS BISMARCK, in speaking of her illus
| trious husband never refers to him otherwise
| than as Bismarck"
Prince FERDINAND, of Bulgaria, has only $50
| 900 year private income, but he will inherit
| $4,000, 600 from his mother.
MOSES 7. STEVENS. of Andover. Mass. is said
| to be the largest individual wooden manufac-
| turer in the United States.
FRANCIS BULLFINcH, the oldest employee in the
City Hall at Boston, is dead at the age OF 81 lie
had held office for thirty consecutive years.
GoUNoD has promised to conduct the five
| hundredth representation of "Fagst'' at the
Paris Opera, which is fixed for Friday, Nov L.
of Rev. William Tulloch's popular biography of
the Prince Consort. Her majesty is also adding
number of anecdotes.
Miss OIoFF KRARER, Of Ottawa. ILL., a native
FsouImauX from the Eastern coast of Greenland,
has been lecturng in Chicago She is 30 wears
old and is only 40 inches high.
VI. ZoLA. the author of Mana has a mania
for bricks and mortar. and all the time he can
spare from his writing he spends in superintend-
ing the additions whic1 are being made continu-
ally to his villa at Medan
CIVIL SERVICE COMMISSIONER EDGERToy. of
Indiana is now IS years of age. lie is a very
active man. however. extremely particular
about his clothes aud he looks many years
younger than ne really is
REUBEN r. THRuLL of Rutland, Vt. aged %
years, is in attendance upon the Rutland County
Court now in session, looking after some old
cases on the docket. He is probably the oldest
prGcticing attorney in the world
Col. BLANToN DUNCAN. who recently predicted
the end of the world in .9l3, now declares that
Mr. Cleveland will no. permit his name to be
used for President again." There is probably
as much truth in one prediction as in the othef.
f. A. CLoUDMAN. of Kingston. " y, inventor
of the present system Of OCEAN HGhtship sta
tons, has received an IMITATION from the British
government TO try bis hand at electric light
buoys to be maintained at certain dangerous
points on the English coast
THE late Admiral Mullany, before his death,
desired that an eightpound solid shot wnIcG
lodged in the mainmast of the United States
ship Oneida during the fight in hobile Bay
shOald be presented to the Philadelphia Union
League. 1t now forms an ornament in the
parlor.
ONE of Kit Carsons sons claims TO own a
large tract of land in the suburbs of Los An
geles. His father homesteaded the same back
in the tifties. and it was afterward sold for
taxes 1t is now worth S1,000,000. Young
Carson has instituted suit for the recovery of
the Land. --- --@.
JULIA TURNBuLL famous dancer, who in her
youth supported Fa2ny Ellser and Madame
Celeste, died in New York recently, aged g.
She made her first appearance on the stage
when years old, and created a sensation uy
singing The Dashing White Sergeant" at that
time "a popular song.
SENATOR PALMER. of Michigan, can boast Of
the finest farm in that State. IL is situated only
a few miles from Detroit and comprises G0D
acres. The senator has the best Jersey ca tie
and Percheron horses in the Northwest, and IL
never so ha Ply as when entertaining friends
under his hosptable roof tre'.
COUNTY COMMISSIONERS SCHUBERT, of Chicago
is one of the most enterprlsing men in Cook
county. He recently paid $1,000 for the priv.
lege of selling liquor on the grounds of the mill
tary encampment and expects TO clear S35,O0
by the transaction The temperance people
however, pr -iose to defeat his reelection.